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slinky2004

11-04-2005 09:06 PM

continuously run a command?

how would i make a command run continuously until i tell it to stop? say, for example, i wanted to continuously check the state of my hard drive with "hdparm -C /dev/hda" by running this command until i tell it to stop.

Bruce Hill

11-04-2005 09:11 PM

watch -n1 'cat /proc/interrupts'
watch changeable data continuously

man watch for details

slinky2004

11-04-2005 10:03 PM

thanks

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